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  2. Cleaner fish - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner fish are used to eat parasitic sea lice from salmon to reduce outbreaks which cause disease in populations. The two most commonly used cleaner fish are the lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus, and the ballan wrasse Labrus bergeylta.

  3. List of brackish aquarium fish species - Wikipedia

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    Requires brackish aquarium conditions with very low Nitrite and Nitrate levels to be kept successfully. Freshwater compromises immune system, harms puffer, and shortens life extremely. Commonly kept in freshwater. Often sold as freshwater fish, but this species actually thrives in brackish water.

  4. Cleaning symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    The best known cleaning symbioses are among marine fishes, where several species of small fish, notably of wrasse, are specialised in colour, pattern and behaviour as cleaners, providing a cleaning and ectoparasite removal service to larger, often predatory fish.

  5. Wrasse - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner wrasses are the best-known of the cleaner fish. They live in a cleaning symbiosis with larger, often predatory, fish, grooming them and benefiting by consuming what they remove. "Client" fish congregate at wrasse " cleaning stations " and wait for the cleaner fish to remove gnathiid parasites, the cleaners even swimming into their open ...

  6. Red garra - Wikipedia

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    The red garra ( Garra rufa ), also known as the doctor fish or nibble fish, is a species of cyprinid that is native to a wide range of freshwater habitats in subtropical parts of Western Asia. [4] This small fish typically is up to about 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) in total length, [4] but locally individuals can reach as much as 24 cm (9.5 in).

  7. Algae eater - Wikipedia

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    Some of the common and most popular freshwater aquarium algae eaters include: Many loricariid catfish of South America , such as genera Otocinclus , Ancistrus , and Plecostomus , constantly graze algae and biofilm , although many species of "plecos", which attain an adult length of over 10 inches, eat much less frequently as they near adulthood.